Accessing partitions in drive images

[Jerry Feldman]

On 01/31/2012 07:14 PM, Ben Scott wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 6:44 PM, Jon "maddog" Hall <maddog at li.org> wrote:
>>>   I started looking into this more today, and quickly rediscovered how
>>> much of a giant pile of kludges the IBM-PC is.
>> The IBM PC was released in 1981.  You expected something other than
>> "kludges"?
>   Heh.  Anything old will have its share of historical accidents, to
> be sure.  But there's reasonable design failings, and then there's
> design by the infinite monkey method.  As much as I live and play in
> the IBM-PC world... much like laws and sausage, it's best not to look
> too closely at the innards.
Compare the Apple model to the IBM model.
Apple model is closed and controlled by one company.
The IBM-PC was open. Many manufacturers of systems, mother boards, and
just about every thing else. So it kind of falls into the infinite
monkey paradigm.

But, as new technology comes around you will get kludges. Remember the
640K memory limitation. There were all sorts of kludges to expand memory
on the PC.

-- 
Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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